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Placing only a NDB

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Tabbi

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Hi all,

I ask my self how can I place a NDB in my scenery. I placed some objects with Instant Scenery (small cabins in Alaska) there are hard to find even for us bush pilots.
But I won´t create an AFCAD file in like airport runway etc because most of them are located in mountains an rough terrain where no plane can land.

I wouldn´t choose the location from the flight menu inside FS only a navaid like a NDB should be shown in the GPS.

I saw this in an other addon looked through the folders but can´t imagine where the NDB would hide :)

If I use AFCAD alltime you can choose the "airport" in the flight menu.
 
Tabbi

You could hand code one in XML and then compile it to a small bgl file
 
Like Jon said code it in XML and run the xml over the BGLComp Compiler.exe file to get a bgl.

This is all you need



<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<FSData
version="9.0"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="bglcomp.xsd">
<Ndb
lat="41.7794444784522"
lon="-82.6700001955032"
alt="189.28M"
type="H"
frequency="0283.00"
range="75.02N"
magvar="7"
region="CY"
ident="PT"
name="PELEE ISLAND" >
</Ndb>
</FSData>

Set your Lat/Lon to where you want it

Set altitude to ground elevation

give it a freq of your choice

Set type and range in N which is NM

What Region you are in and a ident/name of your choosing.
 
Thank you both.
Yesterday I can´t sleep very well without solving this problem :D so at 2.30am I stand up and tried a little bit around with SceneGenX and it works great.

And now I could handcode too,merci.

Anohter question: What´s the meaning of the different types of the NDB (H,HH;....) I used Compass Point works fine for me.

But it would great to have the knowlegde of the types for further using (and understanding what I´m doing).

As I said: Many thanks
 
Type of NDB

Class of NBD Transmission Power Effective Range

Compass Locator below 25 watts 15 - 25 NM

MH below 50 watts 25 - 50 NM

H 50 to 1,999 watts 50 - 75 NM

HH 2,000+ watts 75 - 125 NM


if you used a Type Compass Locator in FS9/FSX you have to be withinn 25 NM to read the NDB swing needle
 
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